Pennsylvania Individual Race: PA-4

Incumbent:	Melissa Hart (R)
	Melissa Hart has a lifetime AFL-CIO congressional voting record of voting wrong on working family issues 85 percent of the time.
Challenger(s):	Jason Altmire (D)
	Go to Jason Altmire’s campaign website.
	OpenSecrets: Campaign Finance Profile

JASON ALTMIRE has spent his career focused on health care policy. He knows the diffi culties working families face with rising health care costs, stagnating wages and skyrocketing gas prices.

WHO'S ON OUR SIDE?

Will Keep Our Jobs in Pennsylvania.
Jason Altmire opposes unfair trade agreements like CAFTA, which ship our jobs overseas. He will fight to eliminate tax breaks for companies that export our jobs. (CQ Politics, 8/21/06; Altmire Campaign)

Will Work to Lower Prescription Drug Prices.
Jason Altmire supports allowing the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada and allowing Medicare to negotiate group discounts to lower costs and “save billions of dollars for the taxpayers.” (Congressional Quarterly, 8/21/06)

Will Protect Social Security.
Jason Altmire opposes any plan to privatize Social Security. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/17/06; www.jasonaltmire.com)

VOTE Nov. 7

How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

This portion of this website is paid for by the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Political Contributions Committee, 815 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006, with voluntary contributions from union members and their families, and is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.